Essays: First SeriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1895 - 290 pages |
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Page 143
... Behold there in the wood the fine madman . He is a palace of sweet sounds and sights ; he dilates ; he is twice a man ; he walks with arms akimbo ; he soliloquizes ; he accosts the grass and the trees ; he feels the blood of the violet ...
... Behold there in the wood the fine madman . He is a palace of sweet sounds and sights ; he dilates ; he is twice a man ; he walks with arms akimbo ; he soliloquizes ; he accosts the grass and the trees ; he feels the blood of the violet ...
Page 215
... behold ! their speech shall be lyrical , and sweet , and universal as the rising of the wind . Yet I desire , even by profane words , if I may not use sacred , to indicate the heaven of this deity , and to report what hints I have ...
... behold ! their speech shall be lyrical , and sweet , and universal as the rising of the wind . Yet I desire , even by profane words , if I may not use sacred , to indicate the heaven of this deity , and to report what hints I have ...
Page 235
... Behold , it saith , I am born into the great , the universal mind . I , the imperfect , adore my own Perfect . I am somehow receptive of the great soul , and thereby I do overlook the sun and the stars , and feel them to be the fair ...
... Behold , it saith , I am born into the great , the universal mind . I , the imperfect , adore my own Perfect . I am somehow receptive of the great soul , and thereby I do overlook the sun and the stars , and feel them to be the fair ...
Page 252
... . Let them , then , become organs of the Holy Ghost ; let them be lovers ; let them behold truth ; and their eyes are uplifted , their wrinkles smoothed , they are perfumed again with hope and power . This old age 252 CIRCLES .
... . Let them , then , become organs of the Holy Ghost ; let them be lovers ; let them behold truth ; and their eyes are uplifted , their wrinkles smoothed , they are perfumed again with hope and power . This old age 252 CIRCLES .
Page 258
... behold it as a god upraised above care and fear . And so any fact in our life , or any record of our fancies or reflections , disentangled from the web of our unconsciousness , becomes an object impersonal and A immortal . It is the ...
... behold it as a god upraised above care and fear . And so any fact in our life , or any record of our fancies or reflections , disentangled from the web of our unconsciousness , becomes an object impersonal and A immortal . It is the ...
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